Dish will likely be granted approval to build a terrestrial service in...
Dish will likely be granted approval to build a terrestrial service in the S band, Guggenheim analyst Paul Gallant said. “We believe the FCC is moving closer to a ruling for Dish’s S band spectrum,” he said in a research…
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note. The commission will likely require “a reasonable buildout schedule for Dish’s spectrum” and “a shift up of 5 MHz for Dish’s uplink,” which could benefit Sprint, he said. The final schedule most likely will fit the FCC’s proposed buildout schedule of 30 percent of covered population nationwide after three years and 70 percent coverage within each local licensing area after seven years, he said. Based on recent FCC filings from Dish and Sprint, “we think the FCC is likely to require Dish to shift its lower block (2000-2020 MHz) up by 5 MHz.” The FCC will likely adopt a final decision before the November elections, he added: A key reason is that if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wins, “the changed political landscape might create uncertainty about the agency’s ability to move forward even on items like Dish/AWS-4 that are likely to have bipartisan support."